Tasslehof is very rude

[quido]

I made a character in his honor because I like him and he said mean things to me.

http://www.msu.edu/~oconne53/tasslehoff.jpg

:( :( :(

[kotton05]

need to add Tasslehoff to your sig

[Enygma]

how rude.

[Malice_Mizer]

"VERY HOSTILE."

[Soandso]

Tells another man to suck his dick then calls him a faggot???

[Ektar]

have you never seen that south park episode

[Strifer]

Sounds like an Austrailian greeting if I ever heard one, which I haven't

[Servellious]

I made a character in his honor because I like him and he said mean things to me.

http://www.msu.edu/~oconne53/tasslehoff.jpg

:( :( :(

second i saw that toon i knwe it was jeremey, you did have us cracking up in vent, i think tass was a good sport about it.

[quido]

it was funny how many people for a minute actually believed that he got deleveled, stripped, and deguilded

that Shamanwokee loser was all "SERVES YOU RIGHT YOU FUCK"

[Arteker]

who cares about a single fucking kender

[Sirken]

/ignore

doing gods work since 1999

[xnolanx]

LOL A+ thread

[Godefroi]

you literally have no life patrick lol

[quido]

yeah this took literally my entire day - I didn't do anything else

[Tiggles]

yeah this took literally my entire day - I didn't do anything else

LITERALLY

[finalgrunt]

http://www.msu.edu/~oconne53/tasslehoff.jpg

Blow Hard - 51 Rogue

[quido]

quiet ya moran

[quido]

im busted

[quido]

ya moran

[quido]

it's about Tasslehof too

get a brain moran

[quido]

I'm sure you think you're really clever, Pierre

YA MORAN

[quido]

good 1

[Vianna]

This is a weird conversation.

[quido]

i agree vianna

[quido]

my forumquesting is the center of all universes, even the tachyon universe

ya moran

[nichomachean]

I like Jeremy. At times we've sat in the East Commonlands tunnel discussing which Beethoven piano sonata is best. I still maintain No. 12 and No. 23 as my top two.

[nichomachean]

Excellent. I have a number.

[Thana8088]

make sure u write it down otherwise Patrick will forget

as long as you understand ur place

Jeremy, what in the world did you do to this poor little guy? He's been acting out for 2 days....

[Tasslehofp99]

I don't know who that is posting under "Smitez" but it looks a lot like an old FE member who joined IB. One who rarely plays but talks ALOT of trash!

Anyway, when Jeremy sent me the first tell from "tasslehoff" I knew it was him, hence my rude reply. I figured a tread like this was imminent as soon as I saw the name ;)

[kotton05]

I rezzed you in hate jermey cause of love

[bizzum]

I like Jeremy. At times we've sat in the East Commonlands tunnel discussing which Beethoven piano sonata is best. I still maintain No. 12 and No. 23 as my top two.

No. 8

[Ella`Ella]

Tasslehof is very rude?

Yeah, but I hear he's hung like a donkey.

[Ella`Ella]

No. 8

You're a pussy! Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies CAN NOT BE BEAT.

[Ella`Ella]

But, I guess that's not Beethoven

[Nirgon]

you brians need to get a moran

[quido]

The Op. 111 Sonata!

[Ahldagor]

all about dat bartok

[Ahldagor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwMEQ9nfj4

[nichomachean]

The Op. 111 Sonata!

Final sonata ist gut. It just...oozes with that sense that Beethoven understands death is coming. Regardless of that, he still seems to find some optimism for the future and the legacy his music will leave upon the world. A fine choice.

[bizzum]

You're a pussy! Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies CAN NOT BE BEAT.

You're a pussy! You listen to songs with words like Sugarplum and Fairies in it!!!

All that aside, Schubert's Impromptu #4 and Chopin Ballade #1 are some of my top favorites as well! Debussy's Children's Corner is also A+. Hard to pick out a favorite

[quido]

Schubert's Impromptu #4

I can play that one! I can play all the stuff from Op. 90 except No. 1 actually - great stuff! I learned the No. 3 in G-Flat first as a youth, picked up the others some time later. I adore Schubert. Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy Op. 15 is a personal favorite.

I've always wanted to learn that Chopin Ballade, Zagum! It is probably a little much for me at this point being slightly out of practice. I've only learned a couple of Chopin Preludes, Etudes, and Nocturnes - never got around to learning a Ballade, Scherzo, Mazurka, Waltz, or Sonata. The most recent Chopin I've learned is the Nocturne Op. 27 No. 1 in C-Sharp minor (not the more famous posthumous one) - I absolutely love this piece. I would really like to learn more of the Etudes as I only learned Op. 10 No. 12 (The Revolutionary) and Op. 25 No. 1 (The Aeolian Harp) and there are so many good ones.

Don't even get me started on Beethoven! I'm glad we can hijack this thread for a classical piano discussion =)

[nichomachean]

You're a pussy! You listen to songs with words like Sugarplum and Fairies in it!!!

All that aside, Schubert's Impromptu #4 and Chopin Ballade #1 are some of my top favorites as well! Debussy's Children's Corner is also A+. Hard to pick out a favorite

I will have to agree for the most part. There is not much that Chopin does wrong. Schubert, I lean toward preference of his lieder. His settings of Goethe, Mueller, and Heine are some of the best.

Debussy is hit and miss with me. I love his experimentation with tonal colours, but some of his other works can be derivative. Items such as L 91 Nocturnes and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune are among his best (and most popular). I find French music from the Romantic period to be hit and miss as a whole, however.

Mahler, on the other hand, ranks in my top three composers, as well as Wagner (though that should be no surprise :rolleyes: ).

[nichomachean]

Don't even get me started on Beethoven! I'm glad we can hijack this thread for a classical piano discussion =)

By all means get started on Beethoven! I'd say he ranks as my favourite composer of all time!

Favourite Beethoven chamber work; go!!

[bizzum]

You guys are making me very sad that I have not had a proper piano in a couple of years now! Fingers are aching for a bit of action! :(

I worked on that Ballade for a while back in college, but I played a lot more of Chopin's mazurkas and etudes and Nocturnes like you did as well. I'll have to check out a few of the one's you listed, they don't ring a bell by name.

I gotta agree with Nicho too. Beethoven gogo!

[nichomachean]

String quartet Op. 131 in C# minor still ranks as my all-time favourite quartet. I am quite a fan of Beethoven's Triple Concerto (Op. 56) as well, and had the immense pleasure of viewing its performance whilst still in school.

[quido]

Haha the entirety of my love for Beethoven is derived from his Piano Sonatas, Piano Concertos, and Symphonies. I tend to not like chamber music as much mostly because I have a deep-seated hatred for the violin. I'm open to suggestions, though! I can deal with it if the players are top-notch.

[quido]

Beethoven also has the two greatest slow movements from large works. The second movements from the 7th Symphony and the 5th Piano Concerto are to die for.

[quido]

I'd also like to give a props to Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata!

[Acrux Bcrux]

This:
Beethoven also has the two greatest slow movements from large works. The second movements from the 7th Symphony and the 5th Piano Concerto are to die for.

And this:
Jeremy Irons The Mystic - 60 Shaman
Bruce Lee - 60 Monk
Redonk Ulysses - 60 Bard
Beavis Christ - 60 Cleric
Malcolm Excon - 60 Enchanter
Gangstalicious Thugnificent - 54 Shadow Knight
Blow Hard - 51 Rogue
Tasslehoff - 3 Druid
<The Mystical Order> Ringleader
Skippy - Bush Kangaroo
<The Mystical Entry>

And this:
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You sir have definitely never seen the female reproductive organs from what I can tell.

[Alarti0001]

You sir have definitely never seen the female reproductive organs from what I can tell.

^What a virgin calls a pussy

[quido]

haha surprisingly being a classical music nut / pianist has gotten me laid a number of times =)

"reproductive organs" lol sounds like a foreign entity!

[Tasslehofp99]

Tasslehof, bringing people together on p99 since 2010!

[Raden]

What does Tasselhof eat for breakfast?

[Tasslehofp99]

What does Tasselhof eat for breakfast?

Pizza lunchables.

[Kagatob]

I made a character in his honor because I like him and he said mean things to me.

http://www.msu.edu/~oconne53/tasslehoff.jpg

:( :( :(

Confirmed two-boxer sending tells to himself.

Inb4ban

[nichomachean]

Stop re-railing from the Beethoven hijack!

Beethoven also has the two greatest slow movements from large works. The second movements from the 7th Symphony and the 5th Piano Concerto are to die for.

Excellent choices. The seventh symphony is probably my favourite of his larger scale works, though eighth comes in a close second. I also rather enjoy the overture from Egmont. It's filled with the thunder and sonority of his fifth symphony in a condensed scale. Being a cellist I am relatively enamoured with the ponderous melody he wrote for it, so maybe a slight bias. :rolleyes:

[Nirgon]

none of your brians will ever get a moran

[quido]

jesus christ, you punch "Tasslehof" into google expecting to see some game profiles or something and look what you find

http://cougarlife.com/profiles/Tasslehof/

[finalgrunt]

jesus christ, you punch "Tasslehof" into google expecting to see some game profiles or something and look what you find

http://cougarlife.com/profiles/Tasslehof/

Doesn't appear in the first 10 pages of Google for me. How deep do you usually go when you RL stalk people?

[quido]

people don't always get the same results, moran

[finalgrunt]

people don't always get the same results, moran

So, does that mean you always have results about cougars in your first pages?

[quido]

I will admit I frequent the cougar life!

[finalgrunt]

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Business/cougarcruise_090917_wl.jpg

By all means, tell us more about it :p

[Kevynne]

This is a weird conversation.

[Kevynne]

Jeremy, what in the world did you do to this poor little guy? He's been acting out for 2 days....

[quido]

I killed him in VP like a dozen times. He was aiding he enemy.

[Archalen]

I listened to Chopin while reading Night and now I associate his music with the holocaust, it sucks. Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C minor makes me cry every other time (thread hi jacked by big-eared classical piano playing nerds).

[quido]

Everyone knows that nobody can play Chopin better than a Holocaust Jew. See Arthur Rubinstein.

[quido]

I can totally see what you're saying too when it comes to Chopin's darker and more brooding works. Everyone thinks of Adrien Brody now when they hear a Chopin Nocturne. However, this association doesn't really match up with his more uplifting works, for the most part. If you consider most of the Etudes and say, a bunch of the Waltzes, and some of the Preludes, the whole Holocaust connotation sort of crumbles.

[Estolcles]

I know we're talking a lot of classic composers, but what about some of the newer ones? Michael Kamen was awesome (while he was still alive), as is Clint Mansell.

Clint's "Lux Aeterna" is just beyond awesome.

[quido]

that sort of stuff doesn't get me hard

[Kevynne]

I killed him in VP like a dozen times. He was aiding he enemy.

Vp. Causing rifts between players since y2k
Classic.
Pras Veeshan!

[bizzum]

Everyone knows that nobody can play Chopin better than a Holocaust Jew. See Arthur Rubinstein.

Rubeinstein is a Chopin god. Ballade #1 recording is definitely my favorite.

[quido]

Krystian Zimerman also plays Chopin like a Holocaust Jew despite not being a Holocaust Jew. Maybe pianists from Poland all just bear the burden of the Holocaust...

[bizzum]

Im half Polish can I play that well?

[NGHpnotiq]

Since this has been hijacked into a talk of classical music, I'd love to ask some advice on the matter. I've always enjoyed listening to classical music but never found myself too heavily involved in it(although the same could be said about any music in regards to my taste). What recommendations could you make to an amateur of classical music? Something to shoe horn me into that music genre.

[radditsu]

Claude debussy or fuck you.

[Godefroi]

Ah I remember that day I heard those polish guys play clair de lune from Debussy near Denfert rochereau, the "métropolitain" felt magic for a few seconds.

5 meters further I saw a bum take a shit against the wall. Come visit Paris guys.

[nichomachean]

Since this has been hijacked into a talk of classical music, I'd love to ask some advice on the matter. I've always enjoyed listening to classical music but never found myself too heavily involved in it(although the same could be said about any music in regards to my taste). What recommendations could you make to an amateur of classical music? Something to shoe horn me into that music genre.

Depends on your mood. Strictly classical you're talking the realm of Mozart, Haydn, Handel, and early Beethoven. Very clean, balanced, symmetrical phrasing and simpler harmonic structure (on the whole). I enjoy some of Mozart's singspiel's for hilarity, Handel for oratorio, and Beethoven's early symphonies (No. 3, "Eroica", is rather accessible).

Moving forward chronologically, into Romanticism, music started spreading out more, so to speak. German Romantic composition peaked in the late 19th century with masters such as Wagner, Brahms, and Mahler, innovating chromaticism, leitmotif, and huge orchestral (and dramatic) scale. I love nearly all of Mahler's symphonies; Wagnerian opera is ridiculous for it's scale (the four Ring der Nibelungen operas take something on the order of 16 hours to perform back-to-back, and are based in Norse/Germanic mythology) and Brahms is great for "absolute" music.

About this time also saw the rise of "program" music with composers such as Hector Berlioz, whose "Symphonie Fantastique" explored extended playing technique and tonal colours, leading to similar ideas of color with Debussy and Faure and Impressionism.

In German lieder (which is art song), Schubert, Schumann, Wolff, and Brahms tend to be favorites, Schubert especially.

For Italian opera, Romanticism saw the rise of Verdi, then Puccini, with rich drama and music.

Moving into the 20th century, the Russians seem to have the most well-renown group of composers, starting with Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev. Shostakovich is always great for sarcastic, interesting works.

My overall advice would be pick a composer and research his or her most popular works, give them a few listens (in different interpretations), then move deeper into his or her catalogue, then onto the next. Starting in the Baroque period and moving forward may give you a sense of how Western music evolved throughout history.

PM if you want specific pieces from specific composers and I shall concoct a list.

Happy listening!